Face the Facts USA: America dominates defense spending

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#8 IN DOLLARS FOR DEFENSE, WE’RE STILL #1 WITH A BULLET

FACT: The United States still spends 58 percent of the total defense dollars paid out by the world’s top ten military powers, which combined for $1.19 trillion in military funding in 2011.

At $695.7 billion, the US outspends China, the next-biggest military power, by nearly 6 to 1.